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Online rich pierce

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Big antique lockplate
« on: June 27, 2010, 04:14:50 PM »
There's a Hudson Valley fowler in the Old Stone Fort Museum at Schoharie, NY, with a marvelous big lock.  It has an ill-fitting Charleville cock replacement but the lockplate is Germanic and robust.  Most HVFs have round faced locks, either early Dutch locks or later English round-faced locks.



I saw an original lockplate on ebay and picked it up.  It's really big, 6 and 5/8" long.  Looks close enough to the Schoharie museum gun to me, and I hope to use it as the basis for a close copy.  Seems like it must be from a musket, it is so robust.  Any ideas?  It has a stamp inside the plate, "FL".





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Re: Big antique lockplate
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2010, 04:34:06 PM »
Rich
I have an almost identical lock on a musket made from assorted parts.I will try and get some pics posted later today.Don't know anything about the musket other than it wandered into my shop last year a gift from a friend.

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Re: Big antique lockplate
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2010, 04:43:11 PM »
Dutch musket lock plate.
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Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?

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Re: Big antique lockplate
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2010, 05:24:45 PM »
Thanks, Dutch makes sense.  Timeframe?  1750's-1770's?
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Re: Big antique lockplate
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2010, 06:10:54 PM »
It's got alot of bend in it, I'd say your dates are about right. Possibly a little earlier.
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Re: Big antique lockplate
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2010, 06:45:15 PM »
I saw that one too, and thought about it, then realized that I didn't have any use for it, so passed.
I was think Dutch 1750ish as well.
Glad it went to a good home!
John
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